I’m not sure when a blog comment should become a post, but the length and ideas discussed in the following response to Gary Stager and Steve Ransom in last week’s post, “Webcam and PSP Porn: More reasons for ongoing digital dialog” seemed to justify a separate post today. Please join in the conversation here or
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I am cross-posting this entry from the Infinite Thinking Machine here, because there is some kind of problem with the ITM domain and the original post is not accessible. (Hopefully this will be resolved soon.) I’ve received a request for this post and info, and cross-posting seemed like the most expedient way to provide this.
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JayCut – Online video editing Similar to JumpCut, allows you to edit and create videos entirely online (tags: video webvideo editor tools web2.0 video_editing multimedia cov cov08) Congress Members Fight For The Right To Twitter : NPR (10 July 2008) (tags: twitter socialnetworking congress unitedstates politics expression law blog blogging) WordPress for iPhone Introducing the
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This podcast is an interview with Lars of Lego Education on the vendor floor at NECC 2008 in San Antonio, Texas, discussing the recently announced “WeDo Robotics” product designed for elementary students ages 7-11. According to the official Lego Education press release, WeDo Robotics “redefines classroom robotics, making it possible for primary school students 7-11
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Podcast267: A Discussion about Lego WeDo Robotics at NECC 2008 (Coming in January 2009 to North America) [ 20:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4812)
I’ve written a draft of an article for the Oklahoma Heritage Association‘s membership magazine entitled, “Empowering Oklahoma Educators to Preserve and Share Oral History.” This is shared as a published Google document. It will likely be revised at least a bit later this week, but as it stands it provides a great deal more background
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Today was day 2 of our July Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop for educators, and this afternoon’s agenda involved three hours of (almost) uninterrupted work time for teachers, administrators, and librarians participating in the workshop. In the first day and a half of our workshop, educators learned: How to plan and organize a digital story using
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Open Source Information for Indiana Schools Here is a list of applications that can be beneficial to schools and individuals. Many of these applications are compiled for both a linux and windows environment. However there are a few below that will only work in linux or windows. Feel free to contact (tags: opensource software school
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I was delighted to learn about Fish4Info this evening: a next generation library portal that seeks to make the library catalog a socially engaging destination by integrating web 2.0 technology with the catalog. From book reviews, to forums, comments and tags; fish4info makes the library website an interactive social community. Created in Drupal and available
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This podcast features a recording of David Thornburg’s NECC 2008 presentation “Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture.” The official conference program description and purpose / objectives for this session were: This talk explores how open education and culture are supported by 1:1 computing facilitated with open source tools, worldwide. True universal
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Podcast266: Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture by David Thornburg (NECC 2008) [ 1:01:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3855)
Touchspin’s Interactive Periodic Table: Main Page Hi. You’ve reached Touchspin’s Interactive Periodic Table page. The highlight of this site is the interactive periodic table. Some other sites have more in depth information on chemistry, but I double-dog-dare-you to find anyplace with a better interact (tags: chemistry science DigitalCurriculum curriculum) H. Stephen Glenn bio of H.
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This summer Oprah Winfrey re-aired her shocking program from February 2006, “The Young Boy Lured into Becoming an Internet Porn Star.” My wife recently recorded this show on our home DVR and showed it to me this weekend. Neither of us had seen this show previously or heard about this specific case. For detailed and
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Ever since Dean Shareski showed me his Sony GC1 Net-Sharing Cam (along with some other, similarly priced cameras) at NECC 2008 several weeks ago I’ve aspired to add a camera like this to my digital backpack. Yesterday at our local Ultimate Electronics store in Oklahoma City, I found a Sony GC1 display model for sale
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Embedded Media Field | drupal.org This extensible module will create fields for node content types that can be used to display video, image, and audio files from various third party providers. When entering the content, the user will simply paste the URL or embed code from the third party (tags: drupal media video webvideo multimedia)
Warning: This is an Internet-released film and as such does not have a “rating.” As Miguel Guhlin points out in his comment, the sexual reference for “the hammer” is both surprising and out-of-place to an extent– It certainly earns this film a “not appropriate for young kids” rating, I think. Full disclosure: I had watched just Act
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Our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital storytelling and oral history project has re-released an RFP for the redesign of our existing learning community website. We anticipate utilizing an open source content management system like Drupal and the Media Mover Plug-in (among others) to have a more robust and flexible learning environment than our current Ning website,
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OZ/NZ educators – Group | Diigo A meeting point for southern hemisphere educators to share ideas and materials and to develop networks within our own hemisphere (Diigo group) (tags: collaboration education australia newzealand technology) Voicethread for Educators (A Ning social network) A collaborative community of educators interested in utilizing VoiceThread in the classroom (tags: voicethread
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You’re invited to join in the conversation this evening at 9 pm US Eastern time (8 pm Central) on the Teachers Teaching Teachers channel of EdTechTalk, discussing (among other things I’m sure) the ideas raised in last Saturday’s ITM blog post, “A Quest for NetFlix Plus Functionality for Books – for Young Readers!” as well
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deviantART: where ART meets application! It is our intention to create the most powerful outlet in the world for known and unknown artists alike. Most importantly we intend to take our time to do it right. For the first time in history there is connection and communication between artists and f (tags: art collaboration photography
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The advisory council for our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices project had a good planning meeting this morning and working session this afternoon, in which we updated many of the handouts we use during our 2.5 day educator workshops. Our summer workshop takes place next week, 21-23 July in Oklahoma City. These materials are Creative Commons Attribution-Only
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Wep to Hex Conversion – Core Coding (tags: tools wifi hex wep internet network Networking wireless converter) Read the Best Children’s Books Online for FREE – BigUniverse.com source for online children’s books, also lets you create your own digital books (tags: book books ebook ebooks literacy library technology author write writing) Lookybook | Home Electronic
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